The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. -Louise Bogan

 

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.


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Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Louise Bogan

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Louise Bogan

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Louise Bogan

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Louise Bogan